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Framer: A super smart onboarding process...all through email

I recently download and began to play with Framer, a tool for prototyping micro-interactions. While learning something new is always a challenge, I've been particularly impressed with their onboarding process.

Every morning I receive an email detailing an integral step of getting to my first prototype. The steps are broken down into small chunks, so if I've been slacking, I could catch up to that day's email tutorial within an hour. Max.

So many products limit the entire onboarding experience to a 3 screen swipe inside the app or, at worst, almost nothing for the desktop experience. It has been incredibly refreshing to be enticed to open Framer and learn bits and pieces of a product in a chronological order that makes sense over the course of a few days, versus a 3 screen, 3 second app tutorial.